Originally published at: Where Things Now In The Abrego Garcia Case - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Despite a flurry of developments, Kilmar Abrego Garcia appears no closer to release from detention in El Salvador than he was a month and half ago when he was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration despite an immigration judge order barring his removal. Today in the legal case seeking his return to the United States,…
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The only way this moves is when a judge finds the Asst US Atty appearing in court in contempt.
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After rejecting the administration’s request for further delay, she issued a revised schedule today that now anticipates completing discovery by May 14.
Until then, Abrego Garcia waits.
I cannot imagine the unrelenting, daily, hour-by-hour agony of his wife and children, let alone him – locked in some hellhole of torture, disease, and death (assuming he’s still alive).
This is a horrific tragedy played out for the inhuman, barbaric, sadistic jollies of an Oval Office psychopath, his Nazi enablers, and those who voted for – and still support – him.
History will damn the name “Trump.”
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While it is the first known action by the Trump administration to try to reverse its mistake, the NYT story immediately dampened the implications of its own headline, noting that it was unclear whether the administration’s effort was a “genuine bid” to comply with an order to “facilitate” his return or, as some experts cautioned, “an attempt at window dressing” to placate federal courts.
Really?!? Unclear? It’s pretty clear to me and anyone else who has been paying attention lately.
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“The Constitution is worth saving, the rule of law is worth saving, democracy is worth saving, but these things can and will be lost if everyone waits around for someone else.” – Timothy D. Snyder
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I have already damned the name “Trump.” I cannot wait for history!
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Despite his public churlishness, the NYT article suggests his administration had already asked, though one might quibble about what it means exactly to “to inquire about releasing” him.
It’s not “quibbling” to observe that the likely extent to which Chiselin’ Trump’s administration inquired about releasing Abrego Garcia was to ask Bukele, “If we claim that we inquired about your releasing Abrego Garcia, will you support our claim?”
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It’s getting harder to identify the worst conduct by this Administration. Word yesterday was that a couple was deported to two different countries while their 2-year old child remained in the US.
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The discovery is not targeting the lawyers. It’s targeting the administration officials who are failing to bring him home. They’re the ones who need to feel the heat, and they undoubtedly do not want to have to go through that wringer. Including Stephen Miller.
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Despite a flurry of developments, Kilmar Abrego Garcia appears no closer to release from detention in El Salvador than he was a month and half ago when he was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration despite an immigration judge order barring his removal.
I take real issue with the “mistakenly deported” in the above. If it really was a mistake, he would be back in the U.S. I mean why would Trump set himself up for this fight unless it was intentional?
Does anyone really believe that the dictator holding a person in jail could not simply order his release.
For Trump and Nayib Bukele, a dictator who rules with an “IRON FIST” not to simply return Garcia claiming they cannot is inconceivable unless the fact is they it was no accident.
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It’s not that they’re shit at what they’re doing, its that you better shut the fuck up about it.
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Well I for one am floored by the NYT’s article. This regrettable stalemate is a truly astounding outcome given the Administration’s ceaseless good-faith efforts to secure his return, backed by the credible threat of real consequences and all the diplomatic muscle the US enjoys! Why, who could ever have predicted that the greatest deal-maker in the entire world would come up short like this? All hail El Salvador, obviously the next great global superpower!
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I do too, actually. I am convinced that Stephen Miller is telling the truth that the deportation was deliberate under the bullshit excuse of trump’s declaration of MS-13 as a terrorist organization.
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What I think is for some reason Bukele wanted to get his hands on Garcia and that is the price Trump paid for Bukele agreeing to take the others.
It is the only way any of this makes sense.
That said, what is really happening regardless of the reason is that Trump is testing the limits, or if there are limits, to his power. I mean if the Federal Government can just grab anyone off the street and send them to a hell hole outside the country and nothing can be done, no one is safe and there are no meaningful limits to Federal power.
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Has he? I only saw the Tren de Aragua one. I also didn’t think the government alleged that Garcia was a member of MS-13 until after they were ordered to bring him back.
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More of the same. Still apparent they have no intention of following the court order to facilitate his return in the meantime either.
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Oh, Jesus Christ.
He was not “mistakenly deported.”
He was flagrantly, “illegally deported.”
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Today I heard some talking head on MSNBC say that Garcia getting due process isn’t all that important because if they put on an appropriate case in front of a judge they can get him deported again so why the big fight. Well why don’t we revisit the revolutionary war. That war was fought because King George III was fond of depriving our ancestors of life, liberty and property on his whim. Due process means the government has to prove you broke a law before you can be deprived of life, liberty or property. The government has to prove that in a court of law not the court of public opinion.
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